February 2006
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Vanity Of Vanities
“All is vanity.” So the Preacher tells us — and some three thousand years later, the question still remains undecided how we are to react to those words. On a simple level, the past few centuries have established conclusively that all is vain in the etymological sense — all is void of greater meaning. And [...]
Rhetoric
One finds in the ugly a hatred of beauty as a means of placing others beneath one. Might not the hatred of rhetoric stem from a similar cause in those who lack subtle ears — and subtler mouths?
Quote Of The Day
After, you don’t find the opposite sex attractive, you just want to fuck metal.1 Rachel Elizabeth de Bernardo↩
Quote Of The Day
If I had that much money, I would have a cape made out of human flesh.1 Phillip Jonathan Briar↩
In The Midst Of Silence
How wonderful life is! Even the sources of suffering can bring pleasure and excitement — one is driven to explore them, to understand, to learn how to predict them so as to avoid them later — or not avoid them, as the case may be. But how cruel it can be as well: one is [...]
Being Silent
Being silent is something one completely unlearns if, like him, one has been for so long a solitary mole —1 Friedrich Nietzsche : The Dawn : Preface↩
Blades
Nothing that breathes is above betrayal.1 Shai Hulud : Demos 2006 : Blades↩
The Liberal Left
The attacks of the liberal left are generally ignorant nonsense and probably more responsible for the successes of the right than the efforts of the right itself. The blaming of corporation is little different from blaming of communists and comparably overbroad. The real origin of injustice is simple — single, selfish people are the problem. [...]
Quote Of The Day
The second you start being unhappy, I’l say “get out of here and get one of your happy friends to stick her ass in my face.”1 Harry Mazzio : Conversation About Cafe Risque↩
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